I don't know much about astronomy but there is a question that occurred to me that I would like to ask this community. You guys seem to know your stuff.

A couple of years ago I started playing this game called Kerbal Space Program (KSP) and my understanding about how orbits actually work increased dramatically. I'm not saying I'm an expert (it's just a game), but I have a basic understanding. Because of KSP I was looking at a picture of a galaxy with its spiral arms and something struck me as very odd. The stars closer in should orbit the galaxy center faster than the stars farther out and that would smear out these lanes of stars until they were no longer recognizable. Something weird is going on here!

So why do galaxies have arms? Whats bunching these starts together like that?

Ok this is the part that's going to make y'all cringe. I cant help with formulating my own idea about this. I have no right to, no training whatsoever. Yoda would take one look at me and say "Hes too old to begin the training. *^%$ Qui-Gon hes older than you? What the hell?", but here it goes just for the sake of humor.

I noticed that the center of galaxies are all smeared out and bulbous like I think that the rest should look like. So what if all that mass rotating around a common center is warping space around it, like the water draining down your sink, and this warping is what catching matter/stars into the lanes.

Could you gently explain to me why my idea is bupkis?

A couple of years ago I started playing a game called Kerbal Space Program (KSP) and my understanding about how orbits actually work increased dramatically. Because of KSP I was looking at a picture of a galaxy with its spiral arms and something struck me as very odd. The stars closer in should orbit the galaxy center faster than the stars farther out and that would smear out these lanes of stars until they were no longer recognizable. Something weird is going on here!

So why do galaxies have arms? What's bunching these stars together like that?

I noticed that the center of galaxies are all smeared out and bulbous like I think that the rest should look like. So what if all that mass rotating around a common center is warping space around it, like the water draining down your sink, and this warping is what catching matter/stars into the lanes.

I dont know much about astronomy but there is a question that occurred to me that I would like to ask this community. You guys seem to know your stuff.

A couple of years ago I started playing this game called Kerbal Space Program and my understanding about how orbits actually work increased dramatically. Im not saying Im an expert (its just a game), but I have a basic understanding. Because of KSP I was looking at a picture of a galaxy with its spiral arms and something struck me as very odd. The stars closer in should orbit the galaxy center faster then the stars further out and that would smear out these lanes of stars until they were no longer recognizable. Something weird is going on here!

So why do galaxies have arms? Whats bunching these starts together like that?

Ok this is the part thats going to make yall cringe. I cant help with formulating my own idea about this. I have no right to, no training whatsoever. Yoda would take one look at me and say "Hes too old to begine the training. *^%$ Qui-Gon hes older than you? What the hell?", but here it goes just for the sake of humor.

I noticed that the center of galaxies are all smeared out and bulbous like I think that the rest should look like. So what if all that mass rotating around a common center is warping space around it, like the water draining down your sink, and this warping is what catching matter/stars into the lanes.

I warned you it was going to be bad. So secondly could you gently explain to me why my idea is bubkis?

I don't know much about astronomy but there is a question that occurred to me that I would like to ask this community. You guys seem to know your stuff.

A couple of years ago I started playing this game called Kerbal Space Program (KSP) and my understanding about how orbits actually work increased dramatically. I'm not saying I'm an expert (it's just a game), but I have a basic understanding. Because of KSP I was looking at a picture of a galaxy with its spiral arms and something struck me as very odd. The stars closer in should orbit the galaxy center faster than the stars farther out and that would smear out these lanes of stars until they were no longer recognizable. Something weird is going on here!

So why do galaxies have arms? Whats bunching these starts together like that?

Ok this is the part that's going to make y'all cringe. I cant help with formulating my own idea about this. I have no right to, no training whatsoever. Yoda would take one look at me and say "Hes too old to begin the training. *^%$ Qui-Gon hes older than you? What the hell?", but here it goes just for the sake of humor.

I noticed that the center of galaxies are all smeared out and bulbous like I think that the rest should look like. So what if all that mass rotating around a common center is warping space around it, like the water draining down your sink, and this warping is what catching matter/stars into the lanes.

Could you gently explain to me why my idea is bupkis?